[Imc-drupal-dev] Knight Foundation Grant for Drupal IMC

[Sofia JarrinT]

Hi there!

In the past couple of days, we've created a loose coalition of Indymedia people to apply for a Knight Foundation grant (http://www.newschallenge.org/) to build an Indymedia Drupal prototype for ALL Indymedias (which I guess will include an  Indymedia install profile)...  The deadline is November 1st.

The idea developed originally from Belgium and Boston Imc and since then has snowballed to include UK Imc, Indybay, and possibly, Urbana Champaign and Bolivia Imc. Please let us know who else we need to invite...  

The goals so far on how exactly to use the money or manage it, if we get it, are a bit up in the air. We originally thought that we could pay IMC Drupal developers so that they could spare the time to make this possible. Why get paid now? I guess it's a feeling of urgency that if we don't, this will take too long to get done, and Imcs continue to close down because of tech difficulties. Techs lack the time and the money should hopefully give them the space to allocate that time.

Another idea is to allocate $ to local Indymedias through the global fund, so they in turn could "hire" an Imc Drupal tech to help them implement the site... 

I've just uploaded our First Draft to the Drupal wikki here... And will be uploading suggested changes very very soon:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDev

We also need to work on a proposed Budget and Timeline. 

Worries, concerns, uncomfortable ikkyness, excitement, ideas?

peace,
Sofia 
Boston Imc


      
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